News
Viewing Page 462 of 491
UK Sport’s Elite Coaches Graduate
From UK Sport: ‘On presenting the Elite Coach class of 2008 with their certificates, Jurgen Grobler, Head Coach to the victorious men’s four in Beijing as well as the gold medal winning British boats from the previous four Olympic Games, […]
Read More
Reed to Continue to London 2012
2008 Olympic gold medallist Peter Reed today became the first member of Britain’s gold medal-winning four to announce publicly that he will continue in the sport towards the Olympic Games of London 2012. 27 year old Reed, who is a […]
Read More
Paralympian supports Youth Sport Trust awards
Alastair Mckean, rowing Paralympian and bronze medallist at the Beijing games, was at the School and Sport Partnerships’ Conference held in Telford on 15th October. Pictured above with Baroness Sue Campbell, the Chairman of UK Sport and the Youth Sport Trust, Alastair talked about […]
Read More
World Rowing Awards – 2008 finalists announced
From World Rowing: The finalists in the World Rowing 2008 Awards will be narrowed down to one in each category with the winners announced during the gala dinner at the World Rowing Coaches Conference in Paris, France, on Saturday 8th […]
Read More
GB Rowing’s International Manager nominated for city sports award
James Cracknell and David Tanner are among the nominees in the Square Mile Sport Awards 2008. Voting has now opened giving the executives in the City of London the opportunity to be the first to name their favourite sporting heroes and moments of the […]
Read More
Olympic parades celebrate biggest medal haul since 1908
[img_assist|nid=2181|title=|desc=|link=none|align=none|width=485|height=296] Henley paid tribute to its own local Olympians, and Andy Triggs Hodge and Tom James from Molesey BC, at the weekend. On a perfect Autumn morning supporters lined the river bank, balconies and the bridge as the four crews rowed […]
Read More
GB Rowing’s Coaching line-up
Jurgen Grobler and Paul Thompson, Chief Coaches for GB Rowing’s senior squads, are to continue in their roles, the ARA has announced today. For British rowing this is a considerable coup in the post-Olympic volatile job market as both are […]
Read More
ARA Medals of Honour 2008
The 2008 ARA Medals of Honour were awarded at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday 27th September. Di Ellis, Chairman, said ‘it is my pleasure to announce the names of those awarded this year’s ARA Medals of Honour, given in recognition of two […]
Read More
Rebecca Romero returns to her roots
Three Kingston RC members – Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Romero, former GB athlete Vic Fangen and club stalwart Peter King – were honoured during a special boat naming ceremony at Kingston yesterday. Ian South, Director of Coaching, said that the […]
Read More
Rowers pull together to celebrate Paralympic Handover
Over 100 people got together on Wednesday to celebrate the Paralympic Handover in style at the YMCA in Plymouth. Pupils from eight schools in the area took to the 18 rowing machines in a relay to notch up a target of 147,000 […]
Read More